Cinema: Saturday's Children

Saturday Morning is a documentary, scarcely 90 minutes long, that
depicts an encounter session involving a group of California
teenagers. It is so deeply felt and subtly crafted that it imparts,
despite the short running time, a sense of participation in the group
experiment. But all this says nothing of the film's human impact: its
unrelenting urgency in conveying the depths of the emotional problems
that brought the teen agers together. Saturday Morning is, in short, a
rare cinematic record of sorrow and discovery.

Producer-Director Kent Mackenzie spent a year interviewing the kids,...